Saturday, April 30, 2016

What a welcome April has been with a good mix of weather, including some light Snow !!! Just when you thought the coming weeks were going to get warmer, Mother Nature mixes things up again !

Apart from the random surprise of weather, this month has been relatively quiet !

Lego :: ( MOC | speed builds )

Some time ago, I was thinking about the Red Arrows display team and thought it would be a great idea to design an aircraft similar. What came out at the end, was an aircraft like the one from Zaxxon the video game.

The next design has to be one of my favourites to date. Thing is known character from an 1985 video game, Thing on a Spring from Gremlin Graphics. Accompanying the game was an excellent soundtrack by Rob Hubbard. Rob was renowned for this fantastic melodies, which were stuck in your head all day or in my case for over 30 years ! :)

On a regular basis, Lego give away or include promotional sets on orders over or under a certain price. Well ! As luck would have it, a friend at work received a promo code via O2 for a *FREE* LegoBatmobile for purchases over 1p ( one penny ). So, I ordered an IronmanFridgeMagnet and got the Batmobile ! :)

Hardware ::

Over the last week or so, my PC Mouse hasn't been functioning as it should and ended up maximising, not fully selecting and in some cases *CLOSED* a window I was working in. So, yesterday I ordered a another Mouse from Amazon ( JETech ) and for less than £6 ( GBP ) it is working remarkably well.

Crowdfunded Projects ::

Another project arrived this month, Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers by Andrew Hewson. This also came with a music compilation. However, this time I opted for a digital copy of the book and download of the album. Both the book and album are excellent, certainly worth the wait !